US top diplomat urges Israel to make hard choices, work with Palestinians
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel on Tuesday to make “hard choices” to normalize relations with more of its neighbours, a new appeal to smooth the path ...
Red Sea crisis intensifies as US, UK shoot down Houthi missiles, drones
U.S. and UK forces shot down 21 drones and missiles fired by Yemen-based Houthis on Tuesday into the Southern Red Sea towards international shipping lanes, the U.S. military’s ...
Polish PM says president is obstructing justice in case of convicted MPs
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused President Andrzej Duda of obstructing justice after two lawmakers who are due to go to prison appeared at the presidential palace on Tuesday prompting ...
UK’s Cameron worried Israel may have breached international law in Gaza
Britain’s foreign minister David Cameron said on Tuesday he was worried that Israel might have breached international law in Gaza, and that the advice he had received so far ...
More than 1,000 Ukrainian towns lose power due to extreme winter weather
Ukraine’s power grid operator said on Tuesday severe winter weather left more than 1,000 towns and villages without electricity in nine regions and urged residents to conserve power as the ...
Second Russian performer detained for sock-on-penis stunt
A Russian singer has been detained for appearing before a concert audience wearing nothing but a sock on his penis, weeks after a rapper was jailed for doing the same ...
Blinken carries Arab message to Israel: keep hope of Palestinian state alive
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his latest mission to rein in the Gaza war, told Israeli leaders on Tuesday there was still a chance of winning acceptance ...
Millions of Filipino Catholics join Black Nazarene procession
More than six million Catholic devotees in the Philippines turned up for this year’s procession to honour the Black Nazarene, turning the streets of the capital into a sea ...
Gabriel Attal becomes France’s youngest PM as Macron seeks reset
French President Emmanuel Macron named 34-year-old Education Minister Gabriel Attal as his new prime minister on Tuesday, seeking to breathe new life into his second mandate ahead of European parliament ...
South Korea’s parliament passes bill to ban dog meat trade
By Hyonhee Shin
SEOUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) – South Korea’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to end the eating and selling of dog meat, a move that would outlaw the ...
Hezbollah hits Israeli base with drones in response to killings
Hezbollah launched explosive drones at an army base in northern Israel on Tuesday, declaring the attack part of its response to recent Israeli assassinations in Lebanon, as sources reported three ...
Blinken carries Arab message to Israel: keep Palestinian state hope alive
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his latest mission to rein in the Gaza war, told Israeli leaders on Tuesday there was still a chance of winning acceptance ...
United, Alaska find loose parts on 737 MAX planes, raising pressure on Boeing (Update)
Boeing’s latest 737 MAX crisis deepened after United Airlines and Alaska Airlines said they had found loose parts on multiple grounded MAX 9 aircraft, raising new concerns among industry experts about ...
Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after blocking NYC bridges, tunnel
Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked several New York City bridges and a tunnel on Monday to demand an immediate ceasefire in the three-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict before police arrested hundreds of them and ...
France’s Macron launches political reset with PM change
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to give a new impetus to his second mandate ahead of European parliament elections and the Paris ...
Biden, Saudis call for Israeli restraint as Gaza suffers another bloody day
Pressure grew on Israel on Monday from its staunch ally the United States and from Middle East powers to ease up on its assault on Gaza as its forces inflicted ...
‘Journalists should not be targets in conflicts’
Journalists should not be targeted in conflict flashpoints, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Cyprus said on Monday, following the death of three more journalists in Gaza a ...
Nearly 250 Palestinians killed in run-up to Blinken visit
Gaza health officials reported the highest daily death toll so far this year on Monday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured Arab states before heading for Israel ...
Western allies seek rapid end to Gaza war as Israel presses on
The United States and its allies in the Group of Seven are seeking a quick way out of the military phase of the Gaza conflict, Italy said on Monday, as ...
Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit
An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters.
The security sources identified him as Wissam ...
Mass killer Breivik sues Norway in bid to end prison isolation
Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in 2011, appeared in a court set up in his prison on Monday to ...
India’s top court quashes release of men in Muslim woman’s gang-rape
India’s top court on Monday quashed the release of 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman and murdering her relatives during Hindu-Muslim ...
Four killed in combined Russian air strike on Ukraine
Russia sent dozens of missiles across Ukraine early on Monday, killing at least four civilians and hitting residential areas and commercial sites in its latest combined air attack, Ukrainian authorities ...
‘Indiscriminately striking’ civilians is war crime, pope says in major speech
Pope Francis, tackling conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine in his yearly address to diplomats, said on Monday that “indiscriminately striking” civilians is a war crime because it violates ...